The House of Representatives on Friday amended the Cancer Control Act in an effort to oblige companies to keep cancer patients employed. The amendments marked the first full-fledged revision of the act, which was established in 2006 to help cancer patients receive appropriate treatment ...

Scientists examining the jawbone of a saber-toothed mammal-like beast that prowled Tanzania 255 million years ago have come across a remarkable fossil rarity: one of the oldest-known tumors. University of Washington researchers Thursday described a benign tumor composed of miniature tooth-like structures they found ...

Washington on Thursday became the first U.S. state to sue the agrochemical giant Monsanto over pervasive pollution from PCBs, the toxic industrial chemicals that have accumulated in plants, fish and people around the globe for decades. Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob ...

The time had come. I checked into the Japan Red Cross Medical Center in central Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward on Nov. 7 and was shown to the eighth floor, where my airy private room has a shower and a sofa beneath the big picture window ...

Cancer patients often experience mental anguish and stress, but a single dose of a hallucinogen found in psychedelic mushrooms, along with psychological counseling, improved their mindset, two studies said Thursday. The approach “significantly lessens mental anguish in distressed cancer patients for months at a ...

Japan’s major cancer research institution has announced plans to use artificial intelligence to diagnose cancer and decide the best courses of treatment for patients. The National Cancer Center said Tuesday that it will work with other organizations, including the National Institute of Advanced Industrial ...

A fund supporting children with thyroid cancer said Monday it will pay part of the medical costs for young patients in Fukushima Prefecture and elsewhere in Japan. The fund, called 3.11 Children’s Fund for Thyroid Cancer, will offer up to ¥200,000 to each patient ...

Japanese TV celebrity Mao Kobayashi, who has been fighting breast cancer for about two years, has been named in the 2016 edition of the BBC’s 100 Women list. Kobayashi, 34, who has been married to kabuki star Ichikawa Ebizo since 2010, was chosen because ...

The teenage girl’s instructions were direct: She didn’t want to be buried, but to be frozen — with the hope she can continue her life in the future when cancer is cured. “I want to live and live longer and I think that in ...

Hideko Tsukida appears more spirited the more she sings on stage, and shows no signs of fading strength in her fight against cancer. The 65-year-old is one of the few Japanese singers of “fado,” a style of traditional Portuguese music. She received the Order ...

Umberto Veronesi, an Italian oncologist, former health minister and senator widely respected for his work on preventing and treating breast cancer, has died, his foundation said. He was 90. Veronesi’s eponymous foundation announced his death late Tuesday, saying his final message was one of ...

Alcohol consumption caused more than 700,000 new cancer cases and around 366,000 cancer deaths in 2012, mainly in rich countries, according to data reported Wednesday to the World Cancer Congress in Paris. Comparing the cancer risk of people who drink to that of people ...